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Frost Venture Partners Snags OCTANe's Vasquez

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Frost Venture Partners , the "big data" startup incubator started by DatAllegro''s Stuart Frost, has just hired away Luis Vasquez, OCTANe''s VP of Entrepreneurship and LaunchPad director, as its new Vice President of Investor Relations. According to OCTANe and Frost, Vasquez joins Frost Venture Partners on July 1st. READ MORE>>.

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OTOY Launches GPU Rendering Software For MacOS

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Los Angeles-based visual effects software developer OTOY says it has launched new GPU rendering software for MacOS, aimed at providing macOS users with what it says provides what it claims is the fastest spectral GPU renderer on macOS Big Sur. the company said its new software, Octane X, is available on the Mac App Store for free.

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Ferret Finds $4M For AI Tools

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Los Angeles-based Ferret, a startup working on artificial inteligence software to help people determine who they can trust, has raised $4M in a seed funding round, according to the company. The company said it was founded by Rob Loughan (former founder of Octane Software) and Al MacDonald (CEO of NominoData).

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Local Corporation Loses CEO In Major Shakeup

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He also serves on the boards of Predixion Software, OCTANe, and B&B Electronics, and has been involved with such companies as TechStarter Ventures, GameSpy Industries, Graham Partners, and others. Thiel has been on Local.com''s board since January of 2013, and was most recently Managing Partner at Triton Pacific Capital Partners.

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Fires, Earthquakes, Climate Changes

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Chapman's philosophy is that advanced systems in both hardware and software are needed to address challenges that face today's society, and California and the western states in particular. Thursday, December 9, 2010 -- Fires, Earthquakes, Climate Changes: Technology's New Role.

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Announcing The Socaltech 50: Southern California's Up-and-Comers

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Daryl Bernstein , RightSignature (Santa Barbara, software). Dev Bhatia , SRCH2 (Irvine, search engine software). Isaac Garcia , Central Desktop (Pasadena, software). John Jersin , Connectifier (Newport Beach, recruiting software). Jason Koch , Telogis (Irvine, fleet tracking software).

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Interview with Kevin Strong, FutureDash

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We spoke with Kevin shortly before the holidays about the firm, as well as how he connected with Allan at an OCTANe event. Kevin Strong: FutureDash is a software company, and our core technology is actually focused on real-time dashboards, primarily for consumers and small businesses. That's one key thing.

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